What happens when CE prices increase too much for people to make profit anymore? (I'm a paying customer so I don't need to worry too much) I'm curious. JK runs fetch you about 5k, if you're lucky, after the nerf. 100CE costs about 6.5k now, FSC fetches about 8k. So its still not impossible to get 100CE (it's still actually very easy) since you can still sell recipes, materials, minerals, SOME equipment, etc. Its almost impossible for the noobs to play more than 2 hours a day, unless they're smart or use real money, right now. So if 100CE were to cost 20k in the future, what's left? Sure the 5 star recipes and UV stuff.. but what if it gets to 30k per 100CE? Good UV equips aren't common and if CE prices were to get that high then people won't craft as often as before. Won't this game become pay to play?

OOO doesn't control the energy market, I know. We do. Unfortunately, I doubt we'd ever see CE prices go back to the 3.5k days. People who use real money to buy CE control the market.. But honestly, why would they sell CE for lower prices just to help out a F2P Knight out? They bought the CE with their money so THEY, THEMSELF, can benefit. CE prices will continue to rise, I'm afraid.

And what happens when most of the gear becomes nerfed? I heard some of the gear before was way better than it was now. Heck, my omega shell got nerfed. Went from a decent shield against anything to a "don't even bother with this" piece of equipment. Chaos set used to have other great stuff I'm pretty sure.. like CTR and yeah. People want the game to be well balanced. But get this, nerfing the equipment isn't balancing anything. I heard the vog cub set was already unbalanced before and they made it even more unbalanced by adding the Increased Attack Speed Med. on the coat and cap. If the nerfing contineus won't this game become limited to vog cub, and maybe, skolver?

Nerfing enemies that are ridiculously strong = Good.
Making neglected equipment a little bit better or more intriguing/useful = Good.
^ In my opinion, this is how you should balance Spiral Knights more.

To be honest, I'm not sure why I even made this thread. Just putting my thoughts up. Maybe I'm just tired. Or maybe because I'm interested in seeing how other people would predict the future of Spiral Knights. Will there be one lone Knight that will go out of his way so that CE prices will go back down? Will OOO stop nerfing fun equipment? Will my girlfriend make me a sandwhich tomorrow? Who knows... Time to take the ol' sleeping vials now..

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